Gameseek have the Datel freeloader available to pre-order which will allow PAL wii consoles to lay non PAL games on the nintendo wii Just like the original freeloader for the gamecube but now for the wii.

For those who have non PAL games and there may be some with NTSC wii consoles.

Would anyone who speaks English care to point out what this thing actually does for owners of vanilla-flavoured wii consoles straight out of a legitimate uk box? From the descriptions above its hard to tell if its a physical item or a piece of software, let alone what it is for!

one thing you may have to be carefull of is as follows
some games have an update on which updates the wii
and the updates can brick the console if it from the wrong region
I.E.
if you update a pal wii with a ntsc game
or vice versa the update is not compatable
i am not 100% sure if this is the case with the freeloader
but is the case with a chipped nintendo wii
so should be ok as long as you never use updates from a different region game
from what your system is
if someone can proove me wrong
please do
regards
scoot

i have 3 x NTSC GC games that i cant play thanks to Wii Updates - this wont help me will it?

ill stick to PAL games i think. not worth buying if in 2 months i cant use the discs.

once you have done the update from a pal disc
then the ntsc one will play as it no longer needs that update
has it as had it from a pal game
(if you know what i mean)
P.S. i am refering to wii games
scoot

once you have done the update from a pal disc
then the ntsc one will play as it no longer needs that update
has it as had it from a pal game
(if you know what i mean)
P.S. i am refering to wii games
scoot

Surely if you just make sure you keep ur wii up to date by regularly updating, then you shouldnt have a fear of this happening though, right?

Play ANY region of Wii or GameCube game on ANY Wii.
Easy to use.
No console modification required.
Doesn’t invalidate warranty.
Play games never released in your region.
Play local games on your imported console.
100% unofficial.

Probably because this isn't a hot deal, it's just a new product at its full retail price.

I didnt know this product was coming out - i thought i would let others who didnt know it was coming out know about it too- i suppose i could have posted in miscellaneous but then not as many people would have seen it.

Also gameseek are one of the only reputable retailers selling this so far and offer quidco compared to codejunkies who do not

Would anyone who speaks English care to point out what this thing actually does for owners of vanilla-flavoured wii consoles straight out of a legitimate uk box? From the descriptions above its hard to tell if its a physical item or a piece of software, let alone what it is for!

It is a disc that you place into the wii console. When placed in , it allows you to then insert any non PAL (UK) wii game after removing the freeloader disc. By doing this you should hopefully be able to play japanese/american wii games on your Uk console.

i emailed codejunkies regarding updated firmware on the wii, this was their reply:

"Dear Customer

Further to your email the product is currently fully compatible with the Wii console regardless of the available firmware versions which are been used. As with any console which has updatable firmware we can not guarantee that no firmware updates will affect the usage of the product but if Nintendo were to release a firmware update which affected the usage of the product we would try to as previously done with our Wii compatible GameCube products to release an updated version of the product to resolve the problem.

sounds to me like it will work for now, if nintendo update firmware to a new version, which disables the freeloader, then they will update their freeloader, as they have done with gamecube version, which as i recall did happen.